" The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live.
This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense.
With a mixture of background theory and real-world examples, this book shows both how to administer Linux, and why each particular technique works, so that you will know how to make Linux work for you.
As you make your way through the book's short, easily-digestible chapters, you'll learn how to: * Create and delete files, directories, and symlinks * Administer your system, including networking, package installation, and process ...
He also thoroughly covers threads and multithreaded programming, and socket-based IPC. This edition covers more than seventy new interfaces, including POSIX asynchronous I/O, spin locks, barriers, and POSIX semaphores.
Demonstrates how to use the Python programming language (an object- oriented scripting language) as a development and administrations tool for Win32.
Tells of the design, construction, and subsequent controversy over the first special-purpose electronic computer
In the Plex is the “most authoritative…and in many ways the most entertaining” (James Gleick, The New York Book Review) account of Google to date and offers “an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world’s most ...
Designed for students and researchers in discrete mathematics, the book is a one-stop reference on the results and research activities